The University at Buffalo in conjunction with University of Stuttgart are working together on a variety of planning projects this June.  The School of Architecture and Planning is located on the University's South Campus.   The campus is located in the city of Buffalo, spreading over approximately 100 acres.  Fifteen Students and two professors from the Planning Department, in the School of Architecture and Planning will lead several workshops with students and professors from Stuttgart to assess and plan for the "re-treeing" of Western New York after the October Storm of 2006.  The October Storm of 2006 devastated the Western New York Region, leaving heavy snow on leaf covered branches, causing the canopy of many trees to collapse.  The disaster effectively destroyed or damaged a great deal of the preexisting forested landscape of Western New York.  Planning students from the University at Buffalo and Stuttgart will work together to create a new landscape planning methodology to be used as a practical response to the storm.  The plan will respond to the storm and recognize the unique opportunity to revisit the existing landscape plans. 

Planning students from the two Universities will meet in Stuttgart and create, through a series of workshops, a plan for redeveloping an urban site for a hotel proposal.  The plan will require synthesis between the two universities to determine best practices, and to understand the impacts on the local urban setting that the new hotel may have.